Take an opportunity to light someone's way

2:19 PM,
Dec. 28, 2012

Written by

Pat Cothran, Leicester

I pulled into my driveway on a pitch black stretch of road and got out to check the mailbox. The man talking on a cellphone walking along the road across from me told his listener that it sure was dark. Indeed it was; I could not see him at all. After retrieving my mail, I watched two oncoming vehicles and wondered if I might witness yet another pedestrian fatality in our county. Backing out of my driveway, I drove the few hundred feet to where the dark figure walked along the narrow edge of the rural roadway. "Hey, take this flashlight. People have been killed ...